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TFP growth in old and new Europe
Burda, Michael C.; Severgnini, Battista - 2009
productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a … deceleration of TFP growth since 2000. However, the economies of New Europe exhibit a higher level of TFP growth overall and have … slowed less than those of Old Europe. In the new market economies of Central and Eastern Europe, we find both high TFP growth …
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Monetary transmission right from the start: The (dis)connection between the money market and the ECB's main refinancing rates
Abbassi, Puriya; Nautz, Dieter - 2010
The relation between the ECB's main refinancing (MRO) rates and the money market is key for the monetary transmission process in the euro area. This paper investigates how money market rates respond to the new information revealed by MRO auctions. Our results confirm a stabilizing level...
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Inflation and growth: New evidence from a dynamic panel threshold analysis
Kremer, Stephanie; Bick, Alexander; Nautz, Dieter - 2009
We introduce a dynamic panel threshold model to shed new light on the impact of inflation on long-term economic growth. The empirical analysis is based on a large panel-data set including 124 countries during the period from 1950 to 2004. For industrialized countries, our results confirm the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270812
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Statistical modelling of temperature risk
Anastasiadou, Zografia; López-Cabrera, Brenda - 2012
Recently the topic of global warming has become very popular. The literature has concentrated its attention on the evidence of such effect, either by detecting regime shifts or change points in time series. The majority of these methods are designed to find shifts in mean, but only few can do...
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